Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...providing 90,000 sq. ft. of floor space. Each hangar has overhead cranes to move planes and motors. Back of the hangars are workshops, storerooms. Croydon's administration building is a large two-story affair with a roomy control tower rising above one end. It contains waiting room, telegraph desks, book shop, rest rooms, quarters for police, immigration, customs, airline and air administration officials. From the passenger's viewpoint Croydon, like so many U. S. airports, is far (12 mi.) from the centre of the community (London). But the English air lines provide comfortable automobiles between airport...
...high, bright voice whose sensational opera debut three years ago made the country Kansas City-conscious, decided last week to go back to the farm, to sing no more. Encouraged by the mother who had chaperoned .her career, the sister Florence who had taught her to sing, the telegraph-operating father who had flashed the first news of daughter's triumph from the wings, Marion Talley announced that she was through with being a prima donna. Her statement was as simple and matter of fact as herself: "My retirement is permanent. I am going West with my family...
Wrote shrewd Interviewer Charles D. Isaacson of the New York Morning Telegraph: "The little lady is furiously upset. She does not like the way she has been received and she has, like the overfed child, a dislike for all the present life. . . . I see a cynicism in her manner, a tightness in her face, a tortured look. The impulse which has sent women to the nunnery ... is pushing Marion Talley now. It is a psychological case if the farm plan is sincere ; it is another ballyhoo, like the original Chamber of Commerce stunt, if it is not." Said Manager Gatti...
...hotels in Canada, and to build a new hotel in London, England. This corporation has also let contracts for an Atlantic liner, Empress of Britain, and a Pacific liner, Empress of Japan, the two ships to cost nearly $20,000,000. It owns some 140,000 miles of telegraph wire, distributes millions of young trees (gratis) to Canadian farmers, has settled more than 55,000 immigrants on more than 30,000,000 Canadian acres, and operates a traveling school that brings education into sections of Ontario in which little red schoolhouses have not as yet been established. Yet this corporation...
...immediate employes, more than 500 in the news and editorial departments. It owns, jointly with a power and newsprint company, an entire town and miles of timber in the wilds of Canada. Last year it spent nearly a million in the U. S. Postoffice Department, half a million on telegraph and cable tolls, almost as much on welfare work among its employes...